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The Unitarian Connection and Ricardo's Scientific Style

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Sergio Cremaschi, Marcelo Dascal
History of Political Economy (2002) 34 (2): 505–508.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-34-2-505
Published: 01 June 2002
.... E. Biddle, 1 -63. Stamford, Conn.: JAI Press. Dascal, M., and S. Cremaschi. 1999 . The Malthus-Ricardo Correspondence: Sequential Structure, Argumentative Patterns,and Rationality. Journal of Pragmatics 31 : 1129 -72. Priestley, J. [1777] 1972 . Disquisitions relating to Matter...
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On Ricardo's Method: The Unitarian Influence Examined

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Christophe Depoortère
History of Political Economy (2002) 34 (2): 499–504.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-34-2-499
Published: 01 June 2002
... on Economic Methodology. HOPE 28.3 : 475 -511. McEvoy, J. G. 1978-79 . Joseph Priestley: “Aerial Philosopher.” Parts 1-4. AMBIX (Journal of the Society for the Study of Alchemy and Early Chemistry) 25 : 1 -55, 93-115,153-75; 26 : 16 -38. Newton, Isaac. [1729] 1934 . Sir Isaac Newton's...
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Marking Time: Marshall's Search for Narrative Explanatory Coherence

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Harro Maas
History of Political Economy (2023) 55 (3): 423–446.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-10438869
Published: 01 June 2023
... ( 2010 : 122) quote Priestley, who wrote that in his charts “the whole is before us. We see men and things at their full length, as we may say; and we likewise generally see them through a medium which is less partial than that of experience.” Marshall's famous epigraph to Industry and Trade , “The many...
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Malthus and his Contemporaries

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William D. Grampp
History of Political Economy (1974) 6 (3): 278–304.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-6-3-278
Published: 01 September 1974
... recall this when he was at the East India College and the same sort of thing threatened its continuance? Another of the tutors was Joseph Priestley, the discoveror of oxygen. He was not however the tutor in natural philosophy, as he wished to be, but in languages and belles-lettres...
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Where Mechanism Ends: Thomas Reid on the Moral and the Animal Oeconomy

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Harro Maas
History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (Suppl_1): 338–360.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-35-Suppl_1-338
Published: 01 December 2003
... apparently unconnected. In the first lecture Reid extensively criticized and commented on Joseph Priestley’s materialist philosophy. The central point of dispute was the in- ertness of matter and its consequences for physiology and religion: “By what force [the muscular fibers] are contracted and relaxed...
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Malthus and Ricardo on Economic Methodology

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Sergio Cremaschi, Marcelo Dascal
History of Political Economy (1996) 28 (3): 475–511.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-28-3-475
Published: 01 September 1996
...:454–68. Porta , Pier Luigi 1986 . Introduzione. In Opere di David Ricardo . 2 vols. Turin: Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torino. Priestley , Joseph. [1767] 1775 . The History and Present State of Electricity with Original Experiments . London: Bathurst. Pullen , John. 1982...
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Adam Smith and the American Revolutionists

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William D. Grampp
History of Political Economy (1979) 11 (2): 179–191.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-11-2-179
Published: 01 June 1979
..., like Edwin Chadwick, who had been Bentham’s secretary. The watchword was anticipated by Joseph Priestley, a contempor- ary of Smith and an admirer. He said (in 1768) the grand criterion of politics is “the good and happiness of. . . the majority of the mem- bers of the state.”26 Freedom...
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A Hunger for Narrative: Writing Lives in the History of Economic Thought

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Evelyn L. Forget
History of Political Economy (2002) 34 (Suppl_1): 226–244.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-34-Suppl_1-226
Published: 01 December 2002
... Britannica , edited by M. Napier. 6 vols. Edinburgh:Constable. Priestley, J. 1765 . A Description of a Chart of Biography, with a Catalogue of Names Inserted in it, and the Dates Annexed to Them . Warrington: Printed for the author. ____. 1775 . The History and Present State of Electricity...
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Rights, the Distribution of Wealth, and Happiness: Gaetano Filangieri’s Constitutional Ideal of Justice

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Fabrizio Simon
History of Political Economy (2018) 50 (2): 373–401.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-6608626
Published: 01 June 2018
.... L’epistolario di Gaetano Filangieri . Napoli : Fridericiana editrice universitaria . Matsumoto Akhito . 2010 . “ Happiness and Religion: Joseph Priestley’s Theological Utilitarianism ,” The Kyoto Economic Review 79 ( 2 ): 144 – 55 . Mill John Stuart . 1972 . Later Letters of John...
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Edgeworth: Utilitarianism and Arbitration

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John Creedy
History of Political Economy (1984) 16 (4): 609–618.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-16-4-609
Published: 01 November 1984
... early utilitar- ianism. His grandfather Richard Lovell Edgeworth and aunt Maria Edgeworth were strong utilitarians. One of R. L. Edgeworth’s circle of friends was Joseph Priestley (see Schofield 1963). It was in Priestley’s Essay on government (1768) that Bentham found the phrase...
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Evangelical Aesthete: Ruskin and the Public Provision of Art

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Gregory C. G. Moore
History of Political Economy (2005) 37 (3): 483–508.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-37-3-483
Published: 01 September 2005
... a young artist could be assigned is “the constant progress of public works involving various decoration” (31–32). He added that the working life of this young artist should be varied and easy, and the work lasting. These views contrast with those held by critics such as J. B. Priestley, who contend...
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A Smithian Reading of Chilean Free Banking

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Maria Pia Paganelli
History of Political Economy (2023) 55 (4): 755–772.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-10620969
Published: 01 August 2023
... and Clyde Canal, connecting the two coasts of Scotland, and the Monkland Canal, linking Glasgow to the coalfields of Coatbridge. The capital for these long-term investments generally came from public subscriptions (see, e.g., Priestley [1831] 1968 ; Prebble 1968 ; Dowds 2004 ). Such economic growth...
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“It Was Their Business to Know”: British Merchants and Mercantile Epistemology in the Eighteenth Century

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William Deringer
History of Political Economy (2017) 49 (2): 177–206.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-3876445
Published: 01 June 2017
... ]. The Merchant's Public Counting-House: or, New Mercantile Institution . … London : Printed for John and Paul Knapton . ———. 1757 . Britain's Commercial Interest Explained and Improved; in a Series of Dissertations … 2 vols . London : Printed for D. Browne, et al . Priestley Margaret . 1951...
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Economic Opinion when Britain Turned to Free Trade

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William D. Grampp
History of Political Economy (1982) 14 (4): 496–520.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-14-4-496
Published: 01 November 1982
... think of Bentham, then much in vogue, who however took the words from a 1768 essay on government by Joseph Priestley.18 The doctrine of a still earlier period-mercantilism-is the origin of the idea that an expansion of foreign trade will increase employment and out- put. The mercantilist...
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Harriet Martineau's Empiricism

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Robert Rich
History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (2): 259–289.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-11055072
Published: 01 April 2024
..., and philosopher Joseph Priestley by making its hero, Dr. Sneyd, a fictional representation of him (Martineau [1855] 1983: 1:254). Briery Creek is an illustration of the principles of individual consumption. Dr. Sneyd's innocent pleasure in astronomy is contrasted with the luxurious expenditures of the abusive...
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Letts Calculate: Moral Accounting in the Victorian Period

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Harro Maas
History of Political Economy (2016) 48 (suppl_1): 16–43.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-3619226
Published: 01 December 2016
...) recommended “the method of record- ing and summing up the separate decisions” used in business. Bain then quoted at length the famous letter of September 19, 1772, that the “great genius of prudential calculation” Benjamin Franklin had sent to Joseph Priestley, “in which he recommends the use, in daily...
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Natural Theology, Theodicy, and Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century Britain: William Whewell’s Struggle

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Paul Oslington
History of Political Economy (2017) 49 (4): 575–606.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-4296317
Published: 01 December 2017
... in Britain such as Joseph Priestley. 4. Unifying science and religion in the minds of clerical participants. The majority of scientific work, including political economy, was carried out by clerics. As we will see later for Whewell, writing on political economy was a religious project...
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The First Translator in English of Turgot’s Réflexions Sur La Formation Et La Distribution Des Richesses : Benjamin Vaughan

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Giancarlo de Vivo, Gabriel Sabbagh
History of Political Economy (2015) 47 (1): 185–199.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2847363
Published: 01 March 2015
.... 196  History of Political Economy 47:1 (2015) There are striking analogies in the contents of the two journals. In both, Richard Price, Joseph Priestley (authors frequently quoted by Vaughan), and the slavery question (Vaughan’s interest in it is covered by Murray) are often mentioned...
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Smith, Turgot, and the “Four Stages” Theory

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Ronald L. Meek
History of Political Economy (1971) 3 (1): 9–27.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-3-1-9
Published: 01 March 1971
... to find earlier expressions of &he “four stages” theory or of ideas closely akin to it, but much to my own surprise have failed. I can find nothing, for example, in the Greeks, Cantillon, Mandeville, Bolirigbroke, Hume, Hutcheson, Voltaire, Priestley, or Montesquieu which could really be said...
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Thomas Jefferson on Money and Banking: Disciple of David Hume and Forerunner of Some Modern Monetary Views

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Clifton B. Luttrell
History of Political Economy (1975) 7 (2): 156–173.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-7-2-156
Published: 01 June 1975
... with the leading political and economic literature of the period. He recommended to John Norvell the following works: Locke. on Government. Priestley’s essay on the “First Principles of Government.” Chipman’s Principles of Government, the Federalists, Adam Smith’s Weulth of Nations...
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